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Show Where They Eat Tobacco. Perhaps there is nothing more peculiar pecul-iar about the Eskimoes of Point Barrow Bar-row than their methods of using tobacco, tobac-co, which, of course, they procure from the whites- They know good from bad tobacco. When they get hold of a few plugs of commissary tobacco from a vessel of the United States navy, they Bhow a marked appreciation of it. The habit of chewing the weed seems to be universal. Men, women and even un-weaned un-weaned children keep a quid, often of enormous size, constantly in the mouth. The juice is not spit out, but swallowed swallow-ed with the saliva, without producing any symptoms of nausea. Washington Star. |